GRE Word List
PERT
saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured
The meaning of the word pert is saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured.
Random words
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leery | suspicious |
unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
defeatist | an attitude of accepting, expecting, or being resigned to defeat |
effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
dysentery | a disease characterized by severe diarrhea with passage of mucus and blood and usually caused by infection |
crust | the hardened exterior or surface part of bread |
flounder | flatfish |
blemish | to spoil by a flaw |
cognate | of the same or similar nature : generically alike |
shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |